National Forest Policy in India: Critique of Targets and Implementation

Small-scale Forestry

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-96

  Joshi, Aditya Kumar ^a   Pant, Pallavi ^a   Kumar, Prasant ^a   Giriraj, Amarnath ^b,c   Joshi, Pawan Kumar ^a,d  

^a TERI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Five year plan; Forest cover; Forest definition; Joint management

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; CONSERVATION; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST RESOURCE; FORESTRY POLICY; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; JOINT IMPLEMENTATION; TREE;

INDIA;

EID: 79651470914     PISSN: 18737617     EISSN: 18737854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11842-010-9133-z     Document Type: Article

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